Greenwood Village · Licensed center

Aspen Academy Early Learning

What the state has found

The state lists 3 visits below. Shortlist has not read the reports behind them, so there is no share of visits that cited something to set beside other providers yet.

State record — Colorado Department of Early Childhood

Last visit
June 25, 2026
On file
3 visits since July 2025
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was May 5, 2026. Colorado Department of Early Childhood does not publish whether it was made.
Most serious
Colorado Department of Early Childhood does not publish a severity level for a citation, so there is no most-serious to name.

Colorado’s Department of Early Childhood lists each program’s complaints on its Colorado Shines page, with the department’s verdict on each and a report behind it, going back about three years. Older complaints are released only on request. The department does not rank complaints by severity in either place.

Jun 2026 Original-Change of Owner visit report not read State records file
May 2026 Limited Supervisory visit 1 finding

Limited Supervisory visit · May 5, 2026

2.229.L · Correction due May 5, 2026

At the time of the visit observed several glue sticks and glue bottles have small lids and can pose a choking hazard for children under the age of 3 years accessible to children in Room #210.

Required correction: Immediately (5/5/2026) toys, toy parts, furnishings, equipment, and any materials accessible to children under than 3 years of age must not be a choke hazard or able to be inhaled. Corrected at the time of the visit. No need for a written statement of compliance to be submitted. Correct by 05/05/2026

State records file

Jul 2025 Original visit 1 finding

Original visit · July 15, 2025

2.230.C.2.a · Correction due July 15, 2025

At the time of the visit the playground structure on the Toddler Playground measured 46 inches height from the structures platform to the ground.

Required correction: The maximum height for toddler climbing equipment cannot exceed 32 inches. Correct immediately 07/15/2025, submit a written statement of compliance by 08/15/2025 Correct by 07/15/2025

State records file

Where this record comes from

The Department of Early Childhood keeps about three years of complaints on a program’s public page. Anything older is released only on request, as a single file covering the whole state. Shortlist asked for that file under the Colorado Open Records Act and renews it yearly; it is what this page shows for complaints older than the department’s own window.

The file this page is built from arrived on October 10, 2026 and covers complaints the department publishes today, and complaints back to January 2023 obtained by records request. The next request goes in October 2027.

The department publishes a report for each of these visits. Shortlist has not read those reports yet, so this page shows when the state came and not what it found.

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Openings, child care subsidies, cost, hours and late pickup, teaching approach, ratios and staff, a typical day, and sick and biting policies aren’t on this page.

Details

Address
1695 E Orchard Road
License
1798059, active
Quality program
Colorado Shines Level 4

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Details

Medium means the middle half of Denver-area’s 1,147 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 41 to 114 children. Small is 10 to 40; large is 115 to 402.